Jan 9 Correct & retract, assuming you catch it

Scientists, for whom published articles are the route to promotion or tenure or support via grants, are competing harder than ever before to get their articles into peer-reviewed journals. Scientific journals are proliferating on the Web but, even so, supply is still unable to keep up with the ever-increasing demand for respectable scientific outlets. The worry is that this pressure can lead to cheating.

My only disagreement here is that the way things are set up already leads to cheating (and faking, fudging, plagiarism, and bribery). It's beenhappening and in some cases it's done irreparable harm.

"We've got a problem here," Filion says. He believes that the deluge is just beginning. "There is so much pressure and so much money at stake that were going to see all sorts of excesses in the future."